DCUO Game Update 12 announced for April 18, 2012

DCUO team announced today that all servers will be offline on April 18, 2012 to launch Game Update 12. Downtime is anticipated to be less than 4 hours. The Game Update 12 will bring to us the following changes:

New Bank UI!We’ve improved the overall look and feel of our Bank UI. Along with better manageability and messaging, the Shared Bank is now located on its own tab. Players also now have the flexibility to split stacks of items within the Bank UI that they once only had within their Inventory.

We’ve also included the ability to quick swap items into your Bank or Shared Bank! With one click (right mouse button) you can instantly move items over without the need to pick items up and drag them to an empty space.

Purchase Character Slots in Character Select!Want to create your Alter Ego? Now you can! Players now have the ability to add new character slots right in Character Select! The “Add Character Slots” button is located below the Character List on the Character Selection Screen.

Alert Teleporters!We have added teleporters outside the boss fights for Alerts, where applicable, to allow players an extra 15 seconds to enter the boss fights after the boss fight door closes.

New Promethium Lockbox Items!Players will now have a chance to receive “The New 52” inspired-by appearance items from Promethium Lockboxes.

Alerts:Ace Chemicals:

Fixed an issue where it was possible to get stuck in the treasure rooms.

Audio:

Full House now plays combat music when you engage him in Amusement Mile.

Raven Unbound: This playroom has improved Music.

Bizarro, Minotaur and Solomon Grundy Open World Encounters now play combat music when you engage them.

Duos:

South Gotham entrances to the Duos are now properly limited to level 30 characters.

General:

Sparring Dummies in the Hall of Doom and Watchtower will no longer keep the players in combat. Really, we mean it this time.

Players with saved settings will no longer experience the game resetting to default settings upon login.

Fixed a bug where binding a key wouldn’t always have the intended result.

Mail no longer indicates there are attachments when none actually exist.

Visual Effects optimizations to improve performance.

Items:

The Soder Cola Enhancer Type IV now has a max stack size of 16.

Missions:

Goddess of Peril: Villain and Lair of the Witch: Hero Missions no longer need to be active in order to enter their respective playroom.

Riddle Me This: Fixed an issue where Heroes could receive damage during a cool cam.

WANTED: Abra Kadabra: This bounty mission now correctly recognizes you are in Central City.

Gorge Yourself: Villain: Gluttony Obelisks are no longer greedy and will update your quest upon arrival.

Old Gotham Subway: You must be Level 30 to enter the Old Gotham Subway Challenge Mode Teleporter.

Powers:

Movement:

The power regeneration triggered by Breakout Mastery and related Movement power traits now tick more slowly for larger chunks. The amount of power returned over time is unchanged.